Saturday, January 05, 2008

Thursday, January 03, 2008

What better way to spend the night of the Iowa caucuses than by watching vintage clips of Sesame Street? If you are as frustrated as I am by YouTube clips that evaporate before you have time to tell your nerdy friends about them, the Official Sesame Workshop video outlet is a godsend.

Apparently, according to Grover, the list of available clips will grow and grow until only a Geefle will be able to reach it.

Afanasy Nikitin

Afanasy Nikitin was the first Russian to explore India, which he wound up doing in about 1466.

In history books you will find very little about his dealings with the Shuisky sisters, or Alnus Rugosa, or Das Brick, because I made them up.

Ali Qushji and Perkin Warbeck and Jami the Persian Poet were real people, who sadly never really had anything to do with Russia or Afanasy Nikitin. The Kreml, while a real place, was probably not as fun as it appears herein.

So abandon all pretence of learning about historical Russia, ye who enter here.